134 EXPLORATION OF THE CANONS OF THE COLOKADO. 
of the Paria River. As re-organized, my party consisted of S. V. Jones 
and F. S. Dellenbuagh, topographers; J. Fennemore, photographic artist, 
with W. C. Powell and J. K. Killers, assistants; P. Dodds, W. D. Johnson, 
A. Hattan, and Gr. Adair, packers and general assistants. 
Our preparations being completed, we left Kanab on May 27, 1872, 
traveling that day thirteen miles, in a northeast direction. At first our way 
was over low, sandy ridges, running out from the base of the Vermilion Cliffs. 
At the end of ten miles, we entered a canon, half a mile wide, cut 
through the Vermilien Cliffs, and known as Johnson Canon. At the entrance 
the walls rose 1,000 feet, but rapidly decreased in height, so that at our 
camp, three miles above its mouth, we had low, rocky hills on either side. 
Our course from Camp No. 2 to Camp No. 3 was nearly north. For 
six miles we were in a broad, sandy valley, bounded by vertical walls of 
sandstone on the east, and on the west by low, rocky hills, that, gradually 
rising, form the northeast slope of the plateau above the Vermilion Cliffs. 
Six miles from Camp No. 2 we entered a narrow canon, cut through the 
White Cliffs. At the entrance it is half a mile wide, with vertical walls one 
thousand to one thousand two hundred feet high, often beautifully arched 
in bas relief. As we ascended, the canon narrowed to fifty feet, its floor 
rose rapidly, the walls grew lower, and at the end of three miles we came 
out into the open country, near the Mormon settlement of Skoompa, hav 
ing risen 1,098 feet above Kanab settlement. Here we made a camp, and 
established a topographic station on the summit of a near hill. 
Toward the south, between Kanab and Skoompa, the country is trav 
ersed by two lines of cliffs the Vermilion and White having a general 
trend north 55 east, and presenting bold, vertical faces from one thousand 
two hundred to one thousand five hundred feet high. Through these cliffs 
but three passes were known between the Virgen and the Paria Rivers, a 
distance of one hundred and ten miles. The first, tha,t known as the Long 
Valley Pass; the second, up the Kanab Creek; the third, the route which 
we followed. From the very brink, or crest, of these cliffs, the surface of 
the country slopes back at an angle of about 2, so that the general appear 
ance is that of terraces, with escarpments fronting southward and summits 
sloping toward the north. Scattered over these declivities are fields of loose 
